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  2. Lotus shoe - Wikipedia

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    The shoes are cone or sheath-shaped, intended to resemble a lotus bud. [1] The size of lotus shoes was between 5.25 and 5.5 inches in length and 1.75-2 inches in width. [2] Until the early 1900s, lotus shoes were primarily made in the home by the women who wore them. [2] They were delicately constructed from cotton or silk, and small enough to ...

  3. Shoe size - Wikipedia

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    The Mondopoint shoe length system is widely used in the sports industry to size athletic shoes, ski boots, skates, and pointe ballet shoes; it was also adopted as the primary shoe sizing system in the Soviet Union, [18] Russia, [19] East Germany, China, [20] Japan, Taiwan, and South Korea, and as an optional system in the United Kingdom, [21 ...

  4. Foot binding - Wikipedia

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    Foot binding. Foot binding (simplified Chinese : 缠足; traditional Chinese : 纏足; pinyin : chánzú), or footbinding, was the Chinese custom of breaking and tightly binding the feet of young girls to change their shape and size. Feet altered by footbinding were known as lotus feet and the shoes made for them were known as lotus shoes.

  5. Manchu platform shoes - Wikipedia

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    Manchu platform shoes refers to the traditional high platform shoes worn by Manchu women which appeared in the early Qing dynasty and continued to be worn even in the late Qing dynasty. [1][2] It is a type of Qixie (Chinese: 旗鞋; lit. ' Manchu shoes '), Manchu shoes, [1] which forms part of the Qizhuang, the traditional attire of the Manchu ...

  6. File:Shoe sizes for adults by foot length (multilingual).svg

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    English: Shoe sizes for adults in Mondopoint, EU, UK and US systems, measured by foot length (multi-lingual) Русский: Размеры обуви для взрослых в системах Мондопойнт, EU, UK, and US, измеренные по длине стопы (несколько языков)

  7. Brannock Device - Wikipedia

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    The Brannock Device is a measuring instrument invented by Charles F. Brannock for measuring a person's shoe size. Brannock spent two years developing a simple means of measuring the length, width, and arch length of the human foot. He eventually improved on the wooden RITZ Stick, the industry standard of the day, [2] patenting his first ...

  8. Boot - Wikipedia

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    Early geometric period cremation burial of a woman, 900 BC, Ancient Agora Museum, Athens. A boot is a type of footwear. Most boots mainly cover the foot and the ankle, while some also cover some part of the lower calf. Some boots extend up the leg, sometimes as far as the knee or even the hip. Most boots have a heel that is clearly ...

  9. Barleycorn (unit) - Wikipedia

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    Under the 1300 Composition of Yards and Perches, one of the statutes of uncertain date that was notionally in force until the 1824 Weights and Measures Act, "3 barly cornes dry and rounde" [2] [3] were to serve as the basis for the inch and thence the larger units of feet, yards, perches and thus of the acre, an important unit of area.